Alright Bro Goodnight / I Forgot To Get My Water

About

Alright Bro Goodnight, continued Oh Shoot, I Forgot To Get My Water, refers to a viral skit trend on TikTok where one person in a hotel bed says goodnight to another person in a bed beside them, then turns away to sleep. A moment later they turn back around, saying that they forgot their water. When they turn back around, the second person is then up and doing something strange other than sleeping. The first video was posted in July 2021, and its original sound became more widespread later that year, inspiring over 40,000 videos in three months.

Origin

On July 23rd, 2021, TikToker^[1] @22urdumaf posted a video where he and another man are laying in separate side-by-side beds in a hotel room. The person behind the camera says, "alright bro, goodnight," and the other man says goodnight back, then both turn to sleep. After a few moments, the camera operator says, "alright, oh shoot I forgot to get my water" and turns back around to see his friend standing on the other bed in only his underwear, looking toward the hotel door (shown below). The video gained over 23 million views in three months.

Spread

The Original Sound on TikTok^[2] for @22urdumaf's video became popularized over the following three months, inspiring over 44,000 videos in that time. The majority of the videos follow the same format as the original, featuring TikTokers turning away from someone lying next to them then turning back around to see them doing something strange. For example, on August 20th, TikToker^[5] @rajatwins1 posted a video where one man turns to the other to see a man dressed as The Flash, gaining over 48.3 million views in two months (shown below).

On September 16th, TikToker^[3] @zweibanausen posted a video following the trend where they turn to see their friend on the ceiling, gaining over 28,7 million views in a month (shown below, left). On September 25th, TikToker^[4] @nothingnormal8 posted a video where he turns to see two people on a stationary tandem bike, gaining over 49 million views in a comparable span of time (shown below, right).

On October 12th, TikToker @the_boyzz111 posted a version of the trend where he turns to see a man covered in shaving cream over the bed, gaining over 9.7 million views in a week (shown below).

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